Heart Health

By Carrie Vittitoe Two years ago, Jenny Leanhart, 43, of Middletown was doing what many other women do regularly: working a full-time job, raising three kids, plus having a house built. She had been experiencing headaches for about six weeks but wrote it off as stress. When she was getting into the shower on a Saturday morning, she began to feel dizzy and felt a violent shaking on the right side of her body. She called for her husband, Scott, who realized she was having a stroke and called 911. Upon arriving in the emergency [...]

By Carrie Vittitoe When it comes to donning fighting gloves, Marquita Busby (32) of Okolona has years of experience. As both a competitor in mixed martial art fights and a survivor of Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a teenager, she has faced her share of physical challenges, but heart disease had her against the ropes for a while. In 2014, she was training six days a week, sometimes two to three times a day and was extremely tired. She checked in with her doctor, who diagnosed her with a thyroid condition, which very likely resulted from her [...]